On Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 10:45:41 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-11-11 9:50 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> > On 11/11/2020 9:32 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On 2020-11-11 8:27 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
> >>> On 11/11/2020 4:21 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I just ordered my complete cooked Thanksgiving dinner from Albertsons.
> >>>> The cost is about what it would be to order all the parts and pieces
> >>>> and then still have to cook. I just can't/don't want to cook all that
> >>>> stuff anymore. It's too hard on me. So, problem solved.
> >>>> I'll be getting a 12 pound roasted turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes,
> >>>> gravy and cranberry sauce. We will have leftovers but that is fine.
> >>>> Janet US
> >>>>
> >>> Sounds like a plan.
> >>>
> >>> I do hope it turns out better than what happened when I was a
> >>> teenager and my mother didn't feel like cooking Thanksgiving dinner.
> >>> She saw an ad in the Sunday paper: Let Kroger Do It For You. Ads on
> >>> TV, too. Turkey and all the fixin's. IIRC it sure looked tasty! So
> >>> she ordered ahead, to be picked up on Thanksgiving day. The
> >>> assumption was, of course, it would be a fully cooked meal. My
> >>> brother and I went with her to pick it up. Carrying the box to the
> >>> car my brother said, "This box is very cold." We opened up the box
> >>> in the trunk and everything in it was frozen solid. The turkey, side
> >>> dishes, everything. Mom was not a happy camper! She marched that
> >>> box right back in and demanded her money back.
> >>>
> >>> We went to another store. We had steaks and baked potatoes for
> >>> Thanksgiving dinner that year.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> That's an amazing story. When I was a kid stores were closed on
> >> Sundays and holidays.
> >
> > What can I say? In the 1970's some grocery stores stayed open until 3PM
> > on holidays such as Thanksgiving and Christmas. Thanksgiving has never
> > been on a Sunday so that's a moot point. They stayed open until 3PM so
> > people could pick up last minute things for their holiday meals. I
> > don't remember exactly what time we went to pick up this dinner but it
> > was certainly too late to thaw a turkey and all the sides and have it
> > the same day. That night we ate steaks.
> >
> >
> They were talking about a complete cooked meal, which one would expect
> to be delivered in time for dinner, not early enough to go out to the
> store.

We always served Sunday and holiday dinners around 2 pm when I was a kid.

Now I time them to be ready at 5:30-6.

Cindy Hamilton